FREE MONEY.....

If your name comes up, then the state is holding $$ for you. They do not tell you how much it is.

Step 5: If you are on there, don't forget to leave a little voluntary donation to THE CAPTAIN POWER (Took me about 5 business days to receive my check from the state, if it has to be notorized it takes up to 60 days!)

I know this got downvoted to oblivion but unclaimed money IS legitimate and not a scam. You see (speaking from the state of California - should be the same in all 50) when a company owes you money (like you paid too much for a cable bill, credit card, money owed to you from a job you no longer work at, etc...) they are required by law to report that debt to the state if they are unable to repay you. This usually happens if you move alot or you change all your contact info/move/run off to the hills for a while and said companies can no longer track you down to write you a check. This money is reported and they have an obligation to pay you IF you claim it and prove you are who you say you are.

I wasn't owed anything unfortunately but I found relatives names who had small amounts (say 10-30$) from money owed. If you're particularly hard to track or go off the radar a lot you could have a pretty good amount waiting for you (it's a public record in CA - saw one guy owed about 600$ and 20 shares of stock). This is money sitting there waiting for you to claim it and even though odds are you're not owed any it takes about 5 minutes to check and you could hit a gold mine!

Nps - truth will usually win out in the end. I actually heard about this from a relative and I had the same closed minded reaction as everyone else initially. .....ahhh yes another poor sucker falling for a 'free money' scam about to get their personal information hosed.... I like to think of myself as a fairly intelligible person so looking back I do feel somewhat ashamed for my snap judgment of the situation. I guess what helped tip the scales for me was instead of backing down they actually explained to me in detail why this wasn't a scam in great detail. With that information I decided to look it up myself and it was an official government site and was indeed real money.

It is just another flaw of human nature I guess - we've seen so many false flags that when a true one comes up we habitually dismiss it. Shortcuts are nice but as this blog has been mentioning if we depend on them too much we become less conscious and more automaton - mindlessly following whoever has the strongest agenda/social frame (for the pickup minded) at the time. From my experience rarely is the default frame inspirational - it tends to be pessimistic and controlling.

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